Comic Title: Superboy #169
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 909 Third Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: October 1970
On Sale Date: August 20, 1970 Copyright Date August 20, 1970
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1970

Frequency: Monthly, with the exception of Feb., Aug. and Nov.
Cover Price: $0.15
Page Count: 32
Editor: Murray Boltinoff

Notes:
This issue contains a two-page feature depicting key events in "The Superboy Legend".

Title: "No Escape for Superboy"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Superboy (of Earth-1)

Writer: Frank Robbins
Penciller: Bob Brown
Inker: Murphy Anderson
Letterer: John Costanza

Feature Character(s)

• Superboy (last appearance in Superboy #168; next appearance in Superboy #170)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jonathan Kent (last appearance in Superboy #168; next appearance in Superboy #170)
• Martha Kent (last appearance in Superboy #168; next appearance in Superboy #170)
• Lana Lang (last appearance in Superboy #167; next appearance in Superboy #173)

Villain(s)

• Lex Luthor (disguised as a Madame Zodia; last appearance in Superboy #166; next appearance in Superboy #173)
• Several bank robbers (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Dillon Manson and Janie Balcomb (a couple preparing to elope; no further appearances)
• Tim (a bank official; no further appearances)
• Smallens (a coroner; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Superboy attends a carnival with Lana Lang. They visit the fortune teller Madame Zoria who makes several dire predictions concerning Superboy. While skeptical, Superboy begins believing in the predictions when several of them come true. The final prediction is that Superboy will be unable to stop the death of Clark Kent.

When Clark goes to the bank with his father the following day, a bank robber shoots Clark. He appears to be dead. Even his father believes it. At the funeral Superboy appears to grieve. Madame Zoria is also in attendance. Superboy then unmasks the fortune teller as Lex Luthor. He explains that Clark is still alive and was replaced by a life-like humanoid decoy. Luthor had staged the predictions to demoralize Superboy, but his plan is foiled.